69 Flower Power Hippie/Hotrod Transit

[gravelrash2004]

Need.................more........progress.................report.........



Loving the work on this

[Franfixit]

Need.................more........progress.................report.........



Loving the work on this

Been........................very................slack.........................at..................posting
But haven't backed off Bus progress .............

Engine in place.........Now what else to blow this carport scene?

That's how much too long the Mk 2 tailshaft was

This is a much anticipated sight............

......and this .....even more anticipated ....too impatient to wait for a gear shifter so crawling under the car to select a gear was all the go at this stage

[Franfixit]

Cleaned the dust off...First time we've seen the True Blue out in the Sunlight...........Pretty

Back in the carport.....Chassis crossmember locations marked out so as not to foul shifter

Handbrake bracket removal............and I've just noticed it's 10pm.....So no more pics for now.

[Altransit]

Top stuff

[deankdx]

will be finished before mine at this rate. great progress!

[pat stevens]

this is going at a great pace well done lovin'it

[gravelrash2004]

Me likey!!!!

(jumps up and down like an excited puppy)

[Franfixit]

One shifter..too wide to fit between seats

So chopping time

Goes for this bit too

Shaped it a bit with the 'lathe'......angle grinder

Some new thread on the round bit

Though seemingly unprofound...it's now relevantly narrower for fitting

Change of lever angle...too lazy to weld fill,drill/cut and file.....so I just rotated the fitting point

Shifter set up at raw, crude concept state

....fits between seats now

Solid linkage shift mechanism menagerie

Linkage set up reversed linkage travel direction so it had to be fitted below pivot point on gearbox....factory attachment point would have been an unworkable angle so I added a bracket to change that

[BROWNYS V6]

top work

[transitandy]

great work

[gravelrash2004]

This is truly TOP WORK! Makes me wish my lady was as good with a spanner and tools.....
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maybe not then she may just tidy my tools away for me and i couldnt find anything again

[pat stevens]

know exacyly what u mean ,its the kids in my house lol
first class work going on here as usual well done

[Franfixit]

Now I don't think I ever mentioned it but the big side passenger door pillar was somewhat damaged....so I removed it ( I did post an engine shot that showed the pillar missing).....Transplanting a Mk2 pillar and the hinge locations are different so here's the Mk2 to Mk1 pillar conversion.......

Here's the plates that lurk behind the pillar skin....plus fill ins that I have cut out

I extended the factory plates with some steel sheet....so when in their new location the old holes have a backing plate in place for my fill ins

Welding in the fill ins

Minor rust repair

Out with the reofill.....seems I missed a step in the pics....the filler on the side of the pillar (Hey that rhymed) is where the internal structural thingy for the door hinges was relocated and plug welded in place

Etch primed........Slight interuption in pillar work as Toni wanted to do stuff on rear doors and they needed hot work first......Did a whole bunch of edge repairs....Just showing the one...........






........and that's one repair..layer by layer

[Franfixit]

Sort of forgot to weld this door retainer thingy in place.....Well I remembered as I was prepping for the etch primer but with limited time before going to work I decided to seal the bare steel and come back to welding this in

Onto the job...all plug welds replacing the original spot welds......

..........except for the door jamb side that tacked butt weld style then swiss cheesed.....

.....and weld overlapped with a 2mm thick backing plate plug welded in place

Door in place on new pillar

[Franfixit]

And now onto something different.....this is all about a certain crossmember that I removed because the bell housing occupies the place where it was.......


Floor coming out

Weeding the unwanted bits off a donour crossmember....this is a full blown Transit crossmember as found behind the drivers seat...not like the skinny one I cut out that is forward of the front seats